Adding conditional statements

[sunil-jhamnani-zz]

I read about the module and also using it in my nodejs application in the email templates. The only thing I want to ask is how can I add conditional statements in the templates, execute them and then fill in all the values?

Thanks!

[Matt-Esch]

There are templating languages that embed conditionals into the language, this isn't one of those libraries, it's just a replacement engine.

If you want to use this library with conditionals then you would conditionally replace a sub-template.

format("{0}, you have {1} unread messages",
     getGreetingFor('Robert'),
     12
)
// -> Good evening Robert, you have 12 unread messages

function getGreetingFor(name) {
    var hour = (new Date()).getHours();
    if (hour >= 5 && hour < 12) {
        return format("Good morning {0}", name);
    } else if (hour >= 12 && hour < 17) {
        return format("Good afternoon {0}", name);
    } else {
        return format("Good evening {0}", name);
    }
}